People wade through water during floods in the Kurigram district of Bangladesh. Credit: UNICEF/G.M.B. Akash By Beatrice Mosello and Adam DayNEW YORK, Jul 13 2021 (IPS) Could the next wars be triggered by climate change? Until recently, the question might have seemed like science fiction, but now it is very real. Ethiopia and Egypt are
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13 July 2021
At the UN, Climate Change & Security Must Be Tackled Together
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13 July 2021
Health warnings as Death Valley scorches in 54.4C heat
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Severity of hot spell in western US underlines dangerous impact of human-caused climate disruption Excessive heat warnings remained in place across swathes of the western US on Monday after Death Valley in California registered what could prove to be the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth. After a cascade of record heatwaves in Canada, north-west
13 July 2021
Pacific Islands Making the Move to Electronic Data Collection
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Credit: Unsplash, Adli Wahid By External SourceKIRIBATI, Vanuatu, Jul 12 2021 (IPS-Partners) Between 2010 and 2020, many Pacific Islands and Territories have updated their traditional data collection processes, embracing new technologies. The island nations Kiribati and Vanuatu, among others, successfully switched to computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), a new data management system and a survey monitoring
11 July 2021
The Guardian view on travel writing: an alternative escape | Editorial
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Going elsewhere may currently be complicated, but we can still immerse ourselves in distant realities We may now be able to look forward to unquarantined travel to and from amber-list countries, but as the colour coding indicates, it will be some time before access to the rest of the world can be taken for granted
11 July 2021
Contingent valuation estimates for environmental goods: Validity and reliability
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Publication date: November 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 189 Author(s): Ángel Perni, Jesús Barreiro-Hurlé, José Miguel Martínez-Paz
10 July 2021
In California’s interior, there’s no escape from the desperate heat: ‘Why are we even here?’
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Soaring temperatures are a way of life in the Central Valley, but racial disparities mean many have no access to relief In Cantua, a small town deep within California’s farming heartland, the heat had always been a part of life. “We can do nothing against it,” said Julia Mendoza, who’s lived in this town for
9 July 2021
A Film Challenging Religious Norms
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By Sania FarooquiNEW DELHI, India, Jul 9 2021 (IPS) When Turkish- Norwegian writer and filmmaker Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen heard about Seyran Ates’ mixed gender mosque in Berlin, Germany, she immediately decided to make a film on Seyran’s life. It took three years to produce the film, ‘Seyran Ates: Sex Revolution and Islam’ a portrait of
7 July 2021
Bangladesh’s Indigenous Forest Dwellers Fear Losing Ancestral Land as Officials Grapple with Land Grabs
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Indigenous people form a human chain in Tangail district, Bangladesh as they demand legal rights to their ancestral forest land. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPS By Rafiqul IslamTANGAIL, Bangladesh, Jul 7 2021 (IPS) When the Bangladesh Forest Department felled Basanti Rema’s banana orchard, Rema, a Garo indigenous forest-dweller of Madhupur Forest, felt she was living a nightmare.
7 July 2021
North America endured hottest June on record
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Satellite data shows temperature peaks are lasting longer and rising higher North America endured the hottest June on record last month, according to satellite data that shows temperature peaks lasting longer as well as rising higher. The heat dome above western Canada and the north-west United States generated headlines around the world as daily temperature
6 July 2021
The United Nations’ leading role in tackling the climate emergency | Letter
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Prof Abiodun Williams says we must not forget that the international organisation has helped our understanding of the issues facing the environment There is a curious anomaly in Alice Bell’s otherwise illuminating article on climate change (Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored), 5 July). It makes no reference